Year four students of Woodford International School yesterday walked the muddy roads and hills to the April Hill area to visit students and teachers of Juniper Christian School. The Woodford year 4 students are currently learning about organisations that are established to help countries at risk. April Hill is where new settlers of the April…
The only Solomon Islands national female taekwondo fighter Emily Magaret Kwaetolo will be the first to fight today when the taekwondo championship kicks off today in the IV Pacific Games. Kwaetolo will face New Zealand in the under 68kg today to open the championship for Solomon Islands taekwondo team. In an interview with this paper…
THE country’s only male who won gold medal so far at the Pacific Games in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (PNG) has acknowledged God for the victory while dedicating his win to April 2014 flood victims. Rosefelo Siosi on Tuesday won the 10,000 meters race and wanted to dedicate his achievement for the innocent lives…
ONE of the star contestants of ‘The Voice Australia 2014’, Elly Oh will be touring Honiara at the end of this month. She will be performing live at Honiara Hotel’s Club Le Flamingo on Friday 31st July and Saturday 1st of August 2015 respectively. Crown Sound Entertainment, an affiliating independent entertainment company in Honiara with…
Solomon Islands female long distance runner, Sharon Firisua has done it again winning her second gold of the 2015 Pacific Games for Solomon Islands. This time it was in the women’s 10,000 metre race. Ms Firisua clocked a time of 38:33s with New Caledonia on second and PNG on third. Speaking to media after her…
Catholic women from West Guadalcanal are preparing towards their religious event set for the 15th of August this year to mark the assumption of Virgin Mary, which will be held at Tangarare, South West Guadalcanal. Speaking to this paper, Solomon Star North West Guadalcanal stringer John Toki highlighted the preparation of Visale women for the…
The biggest Youth Market ever kicked off, Tuesday at Rove field, West Honiara with the launch of the new youth magazine YOSI. The July Youth Market festival and concert, run by Youth@Work and sponsored by Rexona, is the biggest youth market yet, with a record number of stalls, a new gaming zone, and a huge…
THE West Are’are Rokotanikeni Association (WARA) 16th Annual General Meeting (AGM) was successfully opened on Tuesday at the King George Sixth School Hall after a morning parade. Hundreds of women took to the Honiara’s Prince Philip highway participating in a colorful parade from Kukum campus field all the way to King George School in East…
THREE Government Ministers have owed the Heritage Park Hotel more than SBD $900,000 in food and accommodation. The Parliamentary Opposition Group yesterday disclosed information which could cost tax-payers of this country The three ministers are Minister for Agriculture & Livestock August Auga, Minister for Mines & Energy David Dei Pacha and Minister for Tourism Bartholomew…
THE MINISTRY of Environment, Climate Change, Disaster Management & Metrology has assured people in Marovo Lagoon, Western Province that they will respond to reports about the schools of dead fish and corals found dead early this week. Director of Environment Joe Horokou told the Solomon Star that once formal reports reached his office, they will…